While Ottawa River levels gradually stabilize across much of eastern Ontario, it's a different story for residents in Renfrew County. According to the Ottawa River Regulating Committee, the river is expected to still rise another 40 centimetres near Pembroke, Ont., before it peaks next week, due to melting snow along the northern part of the Ottawa River basin. So on Friday, county emergency officials sat beside municipal and provincial politicians and presented a dire assessment of the threat floodwaters still posed to some 1,000 properties in the region. Paramedics in Renfrew County are using a drone to deliver medicine and other supplies to residents cut off by the flooded roads. Elected officials in Renfrew County listen during a press conference on May 3, 2019, where emergency officials laid out their dire forecast for a lasting flood.

Source: CBC News May 04, 2019 22:07 UTC